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History of Wisconsin Boxing Legislation, Rules & Regulations
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- 1909-12-21: Milwaukee conducts its first boxing card in more than a year. Tacoma Daily News (Tacoma, WA, USA) wire report
- 1910-04-22: Milwaukee court rules "boxing contests" are allowed, versus "prizefights" [1].
- 1911-October: By this date Wisconsin, and Indiana, had become the Mecca of Chicago boxers. But recently Wisconsin authorities had "discouraged" the sport, resulting in few bouts there and setting back Chicago fight promoters. [2]
- 1913-01-31: A bill to legalize boxing in Wisconsin is introduced in the State Legislature.
- 1914-12-09: Wisconsin Boxing Commission refuses to grant permit for the proposed Sam McVey-Sam Langford bout. "Permits will be confined to white boxers." Tacoma Daily News
- 1914-12-19: Manning Vaughn of the state boxing commission announces "that negroes will not be allowed to box in Wisconsin," per a clause in the boxing law. Wire report [3]
- 1914-Dec: State boxing commission issues report declaring that the standard of boxing has risen in the past year to a "plane of respectability and decency." [4]
- 1929-09-17: Governor Walter J. Kohler signs the Prescott Boxing Bill, which permits decision bouts in Wisconsin at the option of the State Athletic Commission.